What we are saying when we don’t share the Gospel

It is very easy not to tell people about Jesus isn’t it? We have every excuse in the book don’t we? But have you ever considered what you are saying when you choose not to share the gospel?

My dad grew up in Denmark after the 2nd world war. He once told me a true story that chilled me to my bones.

At a church that was near where my dad grew up there was a young minister in charge of his first church. The church was just across the road from a train station where Nazis used to put Jews on trains bound for Auschwitz. It just so happened that the trains would leave the station at 9:10am on a Sunday morning. So just as the church was singing its first couple of songs the train would leave and the passengers who were going to Auschwitz would scream. As you can understand this would destroy the vibe of the singing in church!

So the minister called his bishop who came and led next Sundays service. The singing started, the train went, the screams rose and the singing went down in volume. To which the bishop exclaimed “Just sing louder!!”

Are you kidding me? Just sing louder so that singing of songs to God drowns out the screams of people going to their impending death.

We are outraged and rightly so.

But have you ever thought that every time you decide to not share the gospel with someone because of those reasons we all have what you are really saying to yourself is “Just sing Louder!!” Because aren’t you letting the reasons in your head block out the thought of this person going to hell?

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I used to be reticent to share the gospel as a Christian. I imagine it’s a very common thing, and I suspect that the discomfort I felt had something to do with the cognitive dissonance I was in.

On some level I understood that I was believing this for bad reasons, and I knew that if I tried to convince someone else of it, those reasons might get exposed.

So if you find it hard to witness to your friends and colleagues – listen to that voice. Ask yourself why. Don’t let yourself be guilted into feeling like you HAVE to proselytize. The message Hans is giving is just like the bit at the end of every chain letter or viral status update: “make sure you copy and paste this to all your friends, cause if you don’t it makes you a bad person.”